Sunday, February 21, 2010

A New Stove!

Oops! I accidentally published the title and no story! =( Well, we did get a new stove. It is a Jotul (pronounced yo-tul), and it is green with a reburn system.
(Oh, and the o in Jotul has one of these doohickeys in it:\). It replaced the old black Vermont Castings stove we had. I took about 14 videos of us putting the stove in. It has a thermometer, a air control, a side door, a glass front door, and some stuff I already metioned.

Then the family came home and I asked them all what they thought of our new stove. It was all "Awesome!" "Cool!", an a bunch of other stuff. Then Dad tried to stuff a converter into the stack, but it didn't work, so we had to use some tools. Then me and dad had an argument about where to put the elbow, at the top or at the bottom. I won. Then we put the rest of the piping in, only to discover that we needed 3 more inches! Then when it was all ready, me and Emerald went to get some wood. Em ran off, so I chased her and got soaked in the process. we had to break in the stove with a first fire of 1 hour at 200 degrees, using only kindling and paper. so we worked on that. Then I had to go to bed. now the stove is usually doing about 400 degrees on average.

A New Stove!

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Alectra lost a tooth!

Finally, Alectra's tooth is out! After much waiting and wiggling she finally has a spot for her new tooth to move into. The tooth fairy forgot to visit the first night but she made up for it by leaving a quarter as well as a dollar last night. Alectra said "It feels gross, not having a tooth in there!"

Today I was reminded again how patient Wenge is. After zooming wildly around the house, she was content to sit in her stroller and watch the girls playing. The girls made a snowgirl today while they were outside. We got a few inches of fresh snow on Sunday. The kids have been wishing we had snow like Grandma and Grandpa. We haven't gotten much this year, but Warren likes not having to plow the driveway.